cat and dolphins playing together

Yep, when I saw the title of the youtube video, I thought it was weird too. How on earth could a cat play with a dolphin? But - they can. And it's too cute for words.

I love cats. I love dolphins. Both playing together = me entirely too happy.

contortionist cat

OK, Orkid puts herself in some funny positions, but this cat just tops all that. And from a door jamb no less! Too freaking funny!

Contortionist Kitteh @ Yahoo! Video

tiny baby kitty

Yep, it's another kitten video.

This one is so small that his (yeah, I don't know if it's male or female, but I'd rather use the male pronoun rather than just "it") head is still almost round because his ears are still kinda flat rather than sticking up out of his head. His eyes are HUGE though - I guess the rest of his head just needs to grow into them.

He's very playful - I laughed at the end of the video. :)

a jury of your purrs

Many people who get called for jury duty are less than thrilled to have to serve it, partly because it can come at an inopportune time, but I suspect mostly it's the sitting around and doing nothing. People try to come up with all kinds of excuses to bail on jury duty.

Well, here's a situation when the reason not to have to serve is a legitimate one.

I heard about this story today, and it really made me laugh. When I heard one bit of the story, that the wife had included the cat on their census form, then I thought it was pretty stupid for her to do that (I'm just not one of those who considers my cat to be the equivalent of my child), until they clarified that she'd included the cat in the census form under "pets". OK, well, if there's a space for that (even if the form was canine-biased), then that's fine.

But I'm wondering what the jury commissioner thought in denying the request to be excused. Did he/she really think someone was pretending to be a cat to get out of jury service? I mean, I suspect there are ways to check if the "cat story" is true, right? If you watch the video on the page (which is mostly a duplicate of the info in the written story, but you get to see the kitty), it says they even got a letter from the cat's vet, stating that the "Sal" in question is actually a cat. Still, no go.

I'm figuring that with this news story, they won't actually have to show up with their cat and that Sal won't have to set paw in court.

baby kitty

Little baby kittens are always fun to watch.

what's with all the hitchhiking kitties?

Yet another story about a kitty that stowed away where it shouldn't have.

But he's a cutie.

part cat, part seal?

Most cats aren't particularly fond of water, except to drink. Bathtime can often be a huge fight when it comes to cats. Orkid likes to jump in the tub, but only when it's empty. If you turn the water on, she'll venture far enough to get a drink, but if you turn it on higher or if you turn the shower head on, she will get out of the tub.

Not so much this kitty. Too frickin' cute.

kitty in a tub @ Yahoo! Video

How much is that kitty in the wheel well?

Cats get into the weirdest places. I've heard of them hitching rides in sofas and other little nooks, but never a wheel well.

I'm really surprised the kitty didn't fall out (but I'm glad it didn't). Poor thing must have been so cold!

SERIOUSLY CUTE KITTY

Yes, I meant to type the title all in caps, because even though I've posted a lot of cute kitty videos on here, this seriously tops all of them.

And yes, if you're on the same places on the internet that I'm on, this is the 40 bazillionth place I've put the video because I think it's just that cute. A friend sent me the link and I've already watched the video five times.

gotta be stealth if you're going to catch a feather

Yep, another cat video. Kitty stalking a feather. Pretty kitty too.

kitty vs. cop - who do you think wins?

If you're going to watch this video at work, you might want to shut the door so as not to alarm your co-workers. If you don't have a door, then you should shove a napkin in your mouth to stifle the outbursts of laughter.

This video is just too damn funny.

good kitty

Hey, if you're going to climb into the tiger's den, then you deserve whatever happens to you. At least in this case, it sounds like they're not even considering doing anything to the tiger. Sometimes when this kind of thing happens, suspicion is cast on the animal. Umm, yeah, that's why the animal is caged. If you go through barriers to try to pet it, you're an idiot.

a kitten, a mirror and shoes

A cute kitten doing cute things is always good, right?

panda baby

I saw a blurb early today and then tonight found this article that a panda at the San Diego Zoo has given birth recently. I always find it amazing how teeny tiny pandas are at birth, and then they grow up to be these giant things!

Many years ago, a friend and I went to Washington, D.C., and we visited the National Zoo and spent quite some time looking at the pandas there. It happened to be feeding time during part of our visit, so we just watched the giant panda chomping away at bamboo leaves.

chimps and pumas and ... oh my!

A friend posted a link to this article about a chimp who has basically adopted a little puma cub.

Oh my goodness, how cute is this story. And the pictures - cuteness overload!

4 week old kittens

Yeah, another kitten video! Kittens are cute, right? You like looking at kitten videos, right? Well, like it or not, that's all I can muster right now. But they *are* really cute.

kitties on a treadmill

My head feels like it's going to explode, so let's watch a cute kitty video today instead!

They've disabled the embedding, so I can't just put the video up here, but it's good enough for me to put up the link to the video. It's totally worth watching all the way through.

Cats are weird.

the tale of the hussy that lived next door

The story started happily. Harry and Pepper had been together for six years, and even though they couldn't have children together, they'd been surrogate parents for a child they'd adopted and who thrived under their care. Everything seemed absolutely perfect.

And then along came Linda. She was the widow of the next-door neighbor. And she already had a sordid past behind her. Several years prior, she had left her long-time companion to hook up with the next-door neighbor, who was much older than her by the way, just hours after the neighbor's own long-time companion had passed away.

And within weeks of the neighbor's passing, Linda seemed to have worked her wiles on Harry, because Harry then moved in with Linda, and they even had their own children. A few scuffles ensued among the three, not surprising given the awkward situation, and Pepper had to be taken away for a little while to calm down, but Pepper seems to have become resigned to living next door to the ex and his new hussy.


Now, that doesn't seem like a very spectacular tale, does it? Well, in the soap opera world, that would be pretty mundane and borderline boring. But it's not a fiction story. It's true.

But, still, not that strange a story, right? But how about if you knew that Harry and Pepper were both male? Would that make it more interesting and unusual?

But wait - there's more!


How about if you knew that the individuals in the above story weren't humans, but rather, penguins?

Yep, the story above is what recently happened on the Penguin Island section of the San Francisco Zoo.


Here's one article with more details about the story.

And here's another article with slightly different details about the story.


And some people have decided to extrapolate from this story and tried to do a "see, I told you so" in making comparisons to humans. I personally think that's stupid for all kinds of reasons, so I'm not going to contribute to that particular discussion/argument. However, this video addresses some of that chatter and also has video of the parties in question, which is the reason for me including the link.

When is a cat like a fish?

When it's in a fishbowl!

Who knew that a cat could squeeze itself into a tiny little fishbowl. I guess the cat was just mostly fur. But the video is still amazing.

tell me something about cats that I don't already know

Someone on a mailing list that I'm on posted this link to an article about how cats control humans. They had to spend all that money to do research to figure that out? That's about as newsbreaking as the whole discovery that if you eat at McDonald's three times a day every day for a couple of months, then you'll get fat! Anyone who has or ever had a cat could have told you that people don't own cats - people are OWNED, and yes, totally controlled by cats. If they need any more obvious answers to the universe figured out, just go ahead and give me the grant money, and I'll just tell them the answers. Easy enough.

(And not that this is relevant to anything, but this blog post was done while I've been sitting inside the living room of the Dream House inside Innoventions at Disneyland. : ) )